The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Small pox is raging IN San Francisco
James G. Blaine and family arrived in
London on the 18th inst.
| Several deaths were occasioned last
week in Minneapolis by sun stroke.
Several people were killed by a storm
which passed over Wilmington, Delaware,
Wednesday.
An elevator containing 100000 bushels
of wheat, collapsed at Tower City, Da-
kota, last Saturday.
Mrs. Hattie Penseyrcs of Buffalo, New
York, convicted murderess, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Albert Toboro, colored, was hanged at
Raleigh, last Saturday for attempting to
outrage the wife of Dr. Patrick Booth.
A steamer on Lake Erie capsized dur
ing squall Wednesday and eight out Of
the twelve people aboard we're drowned.
John Crett, was found guilty of rape
at St. Cloud, Mimi, last Monday and
sentenced to thirty years imprisonment.
A. N. Parcall, a Northern Pacific
brakeman, fell from train at Spiritwood,
D. T., on Monday, and was run over and
killed.
Eastern capitalists lately purchased
100000 acres of land in Sonora, Mex
leo, for the purpose of establishing an
American colony there.
Five men boarded the Grand Trunk at
Fort Gratiot, Michigan, Wednesday morn
ing and held up the passengers, relieving
them of their valuables.
A farmer living about fourteen miles
from Fargo, in boring for water, struck a
good flow of gas last week at depth of
1873 feet below the surface.
A mob of fifty men took Ben Hauge, a
negro, from the Jail at Leonardstown,
Md, last Friday and hanged him to a
tree. Hauge was waiting trial for rape.
John T. Maxwell, Methodist preach
er, shot a man named John Ricketts,, at
Irondale, Alabama, ON Wednesday. Rick
etts had attempted to outrage Maxwells
wife.
The cyclone reported last Saturday as
having occurred at Fargo, should have
been Grand Forks. It blew down over
twenty five buildings and caused the
death of four persons.
Colorow, sub chief of the Utes and a
noted renegade, who has been depredating
in the Uncomphrage district, with fol-
lowing of flom sixty to one hundred
Utes, has been captured by the troops.
While a party of 400 pilgrims were
crossing the Danube river near Pako, the
boat was caught in hurricane and cap
sized. Only few of the party were
saved. Over two hundred bodies have
been recovered.
A solemn requiem mass was celebrated
in the church of the Holy Innocents IN
New York Tuesday morning, for the re-
pose of the souls of the 10000 Irish who
have died of starvation during the reign
of Queen Victoria.
Col. Dan Rice, the Snowman, was
married few days ago to Texas widow
named Mrs. N. C. Robinson, one of the
| wealth1est ranch owners in Lavaca county
Dan is over seventy three years old and
his bride about forty.
On the goth inst, in the city of Cork,
some houses we're illuminated and deco
rated in honor of the queens jubilee. A
crowd smashed all the lighted windows
shouting, "to hell with the queen" and
cheering for Parnell.
In New York over 400 Chinese laundry
employees struck for higher wages this
week. They wanted $4.0O instead Of
$3.50 per day, and the washers wanted
$3.50 instead of $500. A Chinese order
of Knights of Labor may be looked fo'
next. -..
Advices from India say that 500 mer
of the garrison at Herat mutinied on the
9th inst. A short, sharp fight ensued, il
which thirty loyal and fifty rebel troops
were killed. The mutineers fed, but
most of them were captured. The lead
ers of the revolt were sent to Cabul.
The destructive cyclone which visitet
Grand Forks with deadly effect also en-
tirely destroyed the village of Memcourt
an inland town about forty miles north
west of Aberdeen. A few persons wers
injured, but none seriously. The tornado
seems to have covered great deal o.
ground and to have carried death ant
destruction in its path.
In connection with the rather startlin!
statements from Honolulu, predicting
revolution in the Hawaiian kingdom, j
has been disclosed that large shipment